Bill Roehttp://www.blufftontoday.com/do/not/override/panel/taxonomy/term/5087/0
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<p>FORMER COUNCIL CANDIDATE TO CONTINUE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT</p>
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</p><p>This letter is to clear up any further speculation concerning my withdrawal as a candidate for Bluffton Town Council. </p>
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<p>FORMER COUNCIL CANDIDATE TO CONTINUE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT </p>
<p>This letter is to clear up any further speculation concerning my withdrawal as a candidate for Bluffton Town Council.</p>
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<p>FORMER COLUMNIST SHARES FEEDBACK ABOUT NEWSPAPER’S EDITORIAL PAGES</p>
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</p><p>When my article was canceled after 17 years the reason being the desire for the editor to go in a new direction.</p>
<p>Yes a new direction tilted to the left. Wednesday’s edition highlighted an article by The New York Times titled, The Myth about job creation by liberal writer Paul Krugman, is a perfect example of the current leftist slant of Bluffton Today.</p>
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<p>FORMER COLUMNIST SHARES FEEDBACK ABOUT NEWSPAPER'S EDITORIAL PAGES </p>
<p>When my article was canceled after 17 years the reason being the desire for the editor to go in a new direction.<br />
Yes a new direction tilted to the left.</p>
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</p><p>The most important election on the horizon is not the presidential election, but the Bluffton municipal election Nov. 8. It will be the first municipal election since numerous voting irregularities. The voting irregularities were openly admitted by the former county elections director, who has since been replaced by Scott Marshall. None other than Tip O’Neill, former speaker of the House of Representatives, said years before that all elections are local.</p>
<p>When chicanery enters the election arena the public gets disenchanted and distrusts elected officials.</p>
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<p>The most important election on the horizon is not the presidential election, but the Bluffton municipal election Nov. 8. It will be the first municipal election since numerous voting irregularities.</p>
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</p><p>What’s new? Well the government announced that they have sold the balance of their Chrysler stock to Fiat erasing the $12.5 billion loan costing the taxpayers $1.3 billion. </p>
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<p>What's new? Well the government announced that they have sold the balance of their Chrysler stock to Fiat erasing the $12.5 billion loan costing the taxpayers $1.3 billion.</p>
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</p><p>Rasmussen reports after surveying 1,000 likely voters that only 22 percent approve of the recent debt deal in Washington. The strong disapproval was by Republicans and Independents. Democrats were split 50-50. </p>
<p>Obama who relishes media adulation, signed the bill without the big hoopla that accompanied the Obamacare signing. This time the newly-elected tea party Republicans in the House stood their ground without capitulating like they have done so often in the past. So if you are keeping score one could make a reasonable assumption tea party, one and socialism, zero.</p>
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<p>Rasmussen reports after surveying 1,000 likely voters that only 22 percent approve of the recent debt deal in Washington. The strong disapproval was by Republicans and Independents. Democrats were split 50-50.</p>
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</p><p>In last week’s article I reiterated comments by the Canada Free Press. The comments I felt were worth repeating and this past week’s events concerning the debt debate and Obama are worth repeating.</p>
<p>First, however, Obama stated that 80 percent of Americans were in favor of a tax increase. Now that was the “whopper” of the debt debate over the past two years. So let’s review the Canada Free Press again and see if it relates to the past week.</p>
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<p>In last week's article I reiterated comments by the Canada Free Press. The comments I felt were worth repeating and this past week's events concerning the debt debate and Obama are worth repeating.</p>
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<P>While the mainstream media continues to deny Obama’s failures, newspapers like the Canada Free Press recently reviewed the man.</p>
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<p></p><P>While the mainstream media continues to recognize Obama's failures, newspapers like the Canada Free Press recently reviewed the man.</p>
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</p><p>Last Friday, while most of us were hopefully sleeping, Obama’s economists offered up this piece of information, “The stimulus has cost $278,000 per job,” according to the Weekly Standard.</p>
<p>What does that mean? Well one thing is that during the past two years all the blathering from the loyal, local following of our far left president was wrong, dead wrong.</p>
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<p>Last Friday, while most of us were hopefully sleeping, Obama's economists offered up this piece of information, "The stimulus has cost $278,000 per job," according to the Weekly Standard.</p>
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</p><p>How do you congratulate a president who has gained victory from defeat by becoming the worst manager of a tepid recovering recession since Jimmy Carter?</p>
<p>How can you fathom the self importance of a president that ignores his own military advice on future operations in Afghanistan? The president's decision about Afghanistan was not even on the table as a proposal by his military advisors. </p>
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</p><p>A kernel of truth according to the watchdog page Snopes has created a buzz. The buzz is concerning what was said in March 2009 when the Obama administration floated a proposal to save the federal government an estimated $450 million per year by billing veteran's private insurance companies for the treatment of their combat injuries and other service-related health problems.</p>
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<p>A kernel of truth according to the watchdog page Snopes has created a buzz.</p>
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<p>According to Webster&#8217;s dictionary, the word &#8220;kinetic&#8221; as referred to by the Obama administration &#8220;is relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith.&#8221; Now we know why Obama&#8217;s speech was delayed. His administration was trying to describe the action against innocents plus Gadhafi forces in a way to avoid using the word &#8220;war.&#8221; So for those killed, maimed or slaughtered by incoming missiles, I assume they were kineticised, if I follow the Obama thinking. </p>
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